WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd August, 2018) A biometric identification system caught its first imposter attempting to enter the US on phony passport on the third day after the systems deployment at Washington, DCs Dulles International Airport, the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agency announced in a press release on Thursday.
"On August 22, 2018, a 26-year-old man traveling from Sao Paulo, Brazil presented a French passport to the CBP officer conducting Primary inspections," the release said. "The officer utilized CBPs new facial comparison biometric technology, which confirmed the man was not a match to the passport he presented."
A secondary inspection found an authentic national identity card from the Democratic Republic of Congo hidden in the mans shoe, the release said.
The new facial recognition technology virtually eliminates the ability for someone to use a genuine document that was issued to someone else, the release added.
Dulles is one of 14 US airports to deploy facial recognition technology to expedite the entry inspection process of arriving international passengers and began the enhanced entry process on August 20, according to the release.
